[Web-SIG] Random thoughts

John J Lee jjl at pobox.com
Mon Nov 3 07:45:52 EST 2003


On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Steve Holden wrote:
[...]
> On balance, your suggestion seems the most practical except for the
> naming (form-data is not a valid name). Maybe formargs and queryargs, or
> formdata and querydata, or some such, leaving the user to merge the two
> sets as (and only when) required.
[...]

'form' seems bad because form data can be in the URL-encoded data, not
only in the POST data.  How about postdata and querydata?  That doesn't
imply that querydata are absent from POSTs (as getdata would), but doesn't
imply that querydata is necessarily non-form data either.


John



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